Save The Amazon: New Rainbow Warrior expedition starts today

The world is edging closer to an ecological calamity in the Amazon. Threats to the rainforest include logging, cattle ranching, soya plantations and of course climate change.

That's why the Rainbow Warrior is there now, and why today we are launching an international solidarity campaign to stand with the Brazilian people to save the Amazon. Join us and follow the ship!

Citizens' initiative to save the Amazon

Today, on board the Rainbow Warrior in the Amazon, Greenpeace campaigners joined Brazilian civil society and community leaders in the launch (live stream) of a formal petition to Brazil's President for a Zero Deforestation law. The ambitious initiative will seek 1.4 million signatures from Brazilians at home and abroad for a law to end Amazon destruction.

From the heart of the Amazon, Manaus, the Rainbow Warrior will journey down the majestic river to the Brazilian coast before making its way to Rio de Janeiro. There, the global spotlight will be cast on President Dilma, as she hosts the UN Conference on Sustainable Development 20 years after the watershed Rio Summit of 1992.

The expedition will highlight the beauty and importance of protecting the rainforest, expose those responsible for its destruction and champion the solutions needed to achieve zero deforestation in Brazil.

Brazil needs a Zero Deforestation law

Greenpeace supporters around the world have written to the Brazilian President against a reckless new Forest Code law. If passed, it would spell disaster for the Amazon, including the people and the wildlife that depend on it. It is still looming in the wings, with a vote to pass the law in the Brazilian Congress having been delayed time and time again.

Today marks the beginning of an initiative that's not only protesting regressive change like the new Forest Code, but pushing for a hopeful, ambitious new law to save the Amazon for all. Brazil needs a strong legal framework to make sure they continue to reduce deforestation.

South America's heritage, humanity's future

The Amazon Basin covers an area of approximately 6.5 million sq kilometers, comprising five percent of the Earth’s surface. It harbors the largest river system on the planet, about one-fifth of the total volume of fresh water of the world.

The combined effects of deforestation and climate change on the Amazon threaten to push it towards a tipping point, where it will change into savannah by the end of this century.

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Read well and study on your own after you have read this.

This is not a game or joke our Sun gives off a Solar Wind all day year r...

Read well and study on your own after you have read this.

This is not a game or joke our Sun gives off a Solar Wind all day year round if you live in the State of Alaska you see it in the sky above what a sight it is going through our Earth’s Magnet Polls of the North and the South, North Poll. Its Called the Northern Lights or the Aurora Borealis.

The day will come when you will be able to see it all over Earth as in the year 1859 Solar Flare, It was the largest in 500 years. Two Astronomer’s Hodgson and Carrington told the World that the Solar Flare made a Geomagnetic Storm reach Earth in hours not days. Back then it gave new meaning to Reach For The Skies from Telegraph Operators. For hours sparks flew from the key board. Even after the Batteries were disconnected. Nov 3 and 4, 2003 had a X40+ Class Solar Flare.

Our Sun’s UV Rays will get stronger as each passing day go’s by, read and i will tell you why.

The Great big forest have be striped from most of the Earth for Greed of Money by the Wicked. The trees our are Main Source of Oxygen on this Plant.
The Forest Trees scrubs the Pollution out of the air and makes Oxygen from the rain and dirt that it grows in.

The Forest Trees do more then just make Oxygen they stop Soil Erosion, just Look at the 1930 Dust Bowl. Greed by our Government taxes led farmers to clear cut all their Forest and farm all the land they were being Tax on. They had to farm it to pay for the Taxes. Why leave the Trees when food crop makes Money. This Did not Help the Depression that effected most all Worldwide. This year 2012 more then 100 million will suffer from Malnutrition and Dehydration. Many will die!

In the United States of America alone more than 45 Million Americans Received Food Stamps and that number is going up every day every year.

The Pollution and CO2 Carbon Dioxide go into the Tree Bark as a shield from most bugs so they do not eat the tree.

Less Forest less Oxygen this is why the moon. That has no Oxygen is very cold on the side with out Sun Light, And hot as ever on the side with Sun Light. Way too cold and too hot to live there. You would need at least 10 times the Energy we use on Earth to even live there and life on the Moon would be very short.

With no blank of Oxygen to lessen or reduce the Sun’s UV Rays and Solar Wind they are deadly there on our Moon. Every Mt. Climber and Aircraft Pilot knows the higher you go the thinner the Oxygen and colder it gets.

Just spend a night on a Mt. top above 13,000 feet with no Sun Light and you will see or should i say feel the cold stinging any of your exposed skin. If you are new to Mt. Climbing stay below 10,000Ft. The Astronauts and the Cosmonauts and Fighter Pilots that i have been with for years know this very well, and the Radiation Hazards to humans at High Altitudes.

Soon the Sun’s Solar Wind and UV rays will be way to strong for most to go out in the Sun Light for even a short time. The Geomagnetic Storm to come and the Bad Weather Storms well you have not seen nothing yet and the Sea Level is Rising the Oceans. Many Millions have been affected by Floods in China and Pakistan just last year. In 2005 Over a Thousand dead in New Orleans flood, and the list going on.

And there shall be famines, and pestilences, and Earthquakes, in divers places such as was not from the beginning of the Creation.

The last 30 years On Earth we have broke all high temp records and the temp it is still going up. All the Worlds Ice Glacier are melting at an Accelerating Rate. The Glaciers and Polar Ice Caps store more water than all the Fresh Water Lakes on Earth.

The Bad Weather Storms now are Babies compared to what is to come.

They will get even bigger and worse less Oxygen the more UV Rays to the Earth and more Water molecules will evaporate and go up into the Earth’s Atmosphere. Less Oxygen the colder with out sun light and hotter with it.

The Sky full of more water vapor molecules, more snow in the winter and more Flash Floods in the Summer. All earth will see way more fires and the Deserts are growing larger.

If every living person on Earth were to Plant A Tree Today we might have a chance.

The Earth’s Atmosphere Blanket surrounding it protects life on Earth as Our Lord and GOD will all that seek Him.

Then it is written when the tree is full it is harvest time. All the Earth will someday burn away.

This is all Foretold in the Bible Read it
and may our Lord Bless all that do so.

The Lord’s Little Helper
Paul Felix Schott

KI4-AEX

P.S.
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the Earth and its works will be burned up.

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What happens in Brasil happens since more than 40 years... And because it looks very popular everyone and every organisation is very active in Brasil....

What happens in Brasil happens since more than 40 years... And because it looks very popular everyone and every organisation is very active in Brasil.

What's about Peru, Bolivia, Colombia ... ??? E.g. in Peru I can't see any activity from Greenpeace. Why ? What happens in Peru is as worst as in Brasil. But it seems that most people want to see sewed trees, grabbed land, deserts where before has been rainforest....and so on.

It seems that all big Organisations as Greenpeace are coming too late. In Brasil Greenpeace is present now since 10 years only!! Why so late? To geerate mor and more money ?

And by the way, Brasil is not the reason for all the destruction from the rainforests. It's you an me.... Our hunger for meat, always to have fresh bread and so on, this are one of the main reasons for deforestation.

Another big problem in the Amazopn-Region is the the upcoming Mass-Tourismus, Gaspipelines, Oil piplines, water projects specially in tne Peru/brasilian corners...

Barsil of course is a hot spot in destruct nature. But the most problematic hot spot is Peru. To find out more please visit
http://projekt-chanchamayo.jimdo.com

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(Unregistered) sissa
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if only we were a little less selfish and more responsible to think abou the consequences of our actions because we live in a global world: what we do...

if only we were a little less selfish and more responsible to think abou the consequences of our actions because we live in a global world: what we do here has a huge consequence in the other sode of the world...we can't ignore this

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(Unregistered) Onni
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I thank the courageous warriors on the Rainbow Warrior for being in a place that has been the centre of destruction for decades. As was pointed out ab...

I thank the courageous warriors on the Rainbow Warrior for being in a place that has been the centre of destruction for decades. As was pointed out above, rainforest destruction is happening in other South American countries as well. With limited human and financial resources, Greenpeace can only do so much. I applaud this action and support it. My hope is that the Brazilian president will ensure that law and justice prevails in a country that is no better than the wild west of the past in North America.

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(Unregistered) Joao Freire
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For Save the Amazon we need change the mind of brazilian people and, manly, the politicians, they are corrupt, mostly. I am a Brazilian citizen and I...

For Save the Amazon we need change the mind of brazilian people and, manly, the politicians, they are corrupt, mostly. I am a Brazilian citizen and I know what I am saying. Good work, here in my country.